WELCOME TO THE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR
PAWS Findings Presented to Recalibration Committee
Rich Hill, the psychometrician who conducted the third party impact analysis of the 2009-10 PAWS, presents his findings to the Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration on Thursday, August 26, in Casper.
Mr. Hill's report can be found on the WDE website, or by clicking here. http://www.k12.wy.us/SA/Docs/Rich_Hill_report.pdf
Massie Launches Back to School Campaign from Ronald Sniffin on Vimeo.
 WEA Provides inservice training in Cody
Park County School District #6 utilized the expertise of the Wyoming Education Association to provide an inservice training in Cody, Wyoming, August 18-19. WEA Professional Issues Director Kathy Scheurman provided the C.A.R.E. training created by the NEA.
Participants can download the C.A.R.E Guide here.
Massie, Mead, Petersen Receive WEA-PACE Endorsement
42 candidates endorsed statewide
Mike Massie, Democratic candidate for Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction, was among 42 candidates endorsed by the Wyoming Education Association Political Action Committee for Education (WEA-PACE) during the official WEA-PACE Council meeting held in Casper June 19th. Massie was endorsed for both the primary and general elections. WEA-PACE did not make an endorsement in the Republican primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Committee to meet August 25-26 in Casper.
WEA Provides Testimony Regarding Recalibration from Ronald Sniffin on Vimeo.
They did it!
By the hundreds of thousands, NEA members, coalition partners, parents, activists and governors called, emailed and lobbied Congress, demanding they do right by the nation’s students and save 161,000 educators’ jobs threatened by budget cuts.
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WEA SPARKS, ESP Summit success in Laramie
WEA members from around Wyoming attended two simultaneous conferences in Laramie this past weekend. The SPARKS training is designed for beginning teachers and provides them information and training specific for their early years in Education. The ESP (Education Support Professionals) summit provided training to help non-certified employees succeed in their jobs and tips for working in a positive work environment.
View photos of the conferences by viewing the WEAphotos account on flickr by following this link.
NEA Representative Assembly wraps up in New Orleans
Over 30 Wyoming Education Association members joined nearly 10,000 delegates to the NEA Representative Assembly in New Orleans June 26-July6. Read all about it.
Wyoming adopts common core standards
WDE Press Release, July 6, 2010
Wyoming State Board of Education Chairman Sandra Barton has announced that Wyoming has adopted the Math and Language Arts Common Core Standards. Read the Wyoming Department of Education Press Release.
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Have you checked the expiration date of your teacher certification??
Please go right now and check your teaching certificate to see if it expires this year.
If so, go NOW to: http://ptsb.state.wy.us/Licensure/EducatorsCurrentlyLicensedinWyoming/tabid/127/Default.aspx and begin the renewal process with PTSB. Online renewal is a new feature of the PTSB website, available for those who don’t have to submit any higher ed. transcripts. Otherwise, you can download a hardcopy of the renewal application at this site for submission by mail. Remember, it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you are properly licensed, and your very livelihood depends on it.
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